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June 25th, 2005 03:00
My first LAN--what's wrong?
Running XP SP2 on a Dell 8250
Got myself a wireless router (belkin 802.11g wireless), and installed it fine. But now I am trying to set up LAN for multiplayer games. The only games I have tried are a bit older (~2000) and are asking for IPX to be installed. My connection is TCP/IP and I don't see IPX as a selection anywhere in the "properties". It is working fine for internet browsing, for two computers at the same time. I don't see that IPX even exists anymore (the XP "help" refers to W2000 and control panel screens and selections that apparently aren't present in XP).
From what I've gathered, it looks like maybe I'm supposed to set up an ICS with my main computer as the hub, and the others just automatically will be on the LAN. Is that right? Can two XP computers see each other with independent connections to a single router, or do they need to have one master to be visible to each other? Would a newer game be more able to link up?
But those questions do not seem to solve the whole "no IPX found" problem either. Is such a game simply impossible to run in XP?
What am I doing wrong?
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volcano11
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June 25th, 2005 03:00
First, you do not need to set up ICS with a router. If you do, then your whole network will not work. If you need the IPX/SPX protocol to play the older games, open Network Connections, right click on your LAN connection and select Properties. On the General tab, click on the Install button. Then click on Protocol and click on the Add button. Select the NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS compatible transport protocol, then click OK.
Steve
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June 25th, 2005 03:00
IPX/SPX is a networking protocol at the same level as TCP/IP. While it's fully supported by XP (see this article for setup information), you'll have to check the Belkin documentation to be sure that the router can handle IPX/SPX coming from a wireless client, and the documentation for the wireless adapter to be sure it supports IPX/SPX as well. IPX/SPX cannot be routed over the Internet, but as long as the various LAN devices support it, you should be OK. If a later version of the game is available that uses TCP/IP instead of IPX, you'd be better off updating the game.
Jim